Method of locating skates on shoes



Jan. 21, 1947. e. H. GILLIS 1 METHOD OF LOCATING SKATES 0N SHOES Filed April 1, 1946 Patented Jan. 21, 194 7 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Martian F LooA'rING SKATES 0N snoEs George H. Giilis, Fitchburg, Mass. Application April 1, 194d, Serial'No. 658,751

If skates are not applied in the right places to the soles of skate shoes, the shoe skates lack proper balance and are unsatisfactory to the wearer, and heretofore considerable difficulty has been experienced from this cause.

An object of this invention, therefore, is to provide a method in the manufacture of the shoe by which correct and uniform positioning of the skates on the shoes may be assured. To this end, points are accurately located on the inner and outersoles, and when making the shoe these soles are applied in definite relation to each other with reference to these points. The skate is thereafter applied to the outersole in definite relation to the locating points on the outersole.

For a more complete understanding of this invention, reference may be had to the accompanying drawing in which Figures 1 and 2 are perspective views of inner and outersoles, respectively, having locating points indicated thereon.

Figure 3 is a detail sectional view on line 3-3 of Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a view similar to Figure 3, but showing rivets as locating elements inserted at the locating points of the innersole.

Figures 5 and 6 are side elevations of the rounding patterns for the inner and outersoles, respectively.

Figure 7 is a side elevation of the shoe partly broken away in condition for the skate to be applied thereto.

Figure 8 is an inverted perspective View of the shoe of Figure 5 showing its skate-locating points and the mating foot plate of the skate ready for application to the shoe.

Referring to the drawing, Figure 1 shows an innersole I having thereon a pair of spaced locating points 2. These locating points may be marked on the innersole by the use of a pair of prongs 3 on an innersole pattern 4 shown in Figure 5 on which the innersole is rounded in accordance with ordinary practice.

Figure 2 shows an outersole 5 rounded on a similar pattern (Figure 6), but this pattern has a pair of prongs 3a forming indications 6 matching exactly the indications 2 on the innersole. This outersole pattern 50 also has other prongs Ill which make indentations in the outersole blank at I in definite relation to the indications at *6, but spaced to conform to the attaching means for the skate which is to be applied thereto. For example, as shown in Figure 8, the attaching plate [0 of the skate has a series of holes H therethrough which correspond in arrange- 4 Claims. (01. 12-142)- ment and spacing precisely to the indentations 1 formed on the outersole as by the prongs of the pattern plate upon which it is rounded. At the indications 2 on the innersole, locating elements, such as rivets [5, may be driven therethrough as shown in Figure 4, these elements projecting from the lower face of the innersole. The innersole thus provided with the locating elements [5 is incorporated in the shoe, the elements Iii projecting from the innersole. Then the outersole 2 is applied to the shoe with the locating elements l5 extending thereinto at the locating points 6 on the outersole, and the outersole is secured to the shoe in that position and the shoe completed. Next, the skate plate in is applied to the outersole with the indications l of the outersole coming in line with the holes ll of the skate plate, these indications being visible through the skate plate holes. Attaching elements for the skate are then applied through the holes ll of the skate plate and into the sole of the shoe at the points I. Commonly rivets are employed to secure the skate plate in position.

In accordance with this method, the proper positioning of the skate plate on the shoe is insured because the proper locations for the fastening elements on the outersole are indicated with reference to the innersole and to the shoe itself, since the outersole is definitely related in position to the innersole by the locating elements l5. While as shown, a roller skate is being applied, the same method may be employed in attaching an ice skate with assurance that the skate will be correctly located on the shoe.

From the foregoing description of the invention, it should be evident to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications might be made without departing from its spirit or scope.

I claim:

1. The method which comprises indicating on an outersole the correct location for skate fasteners with respect to a pair of locating points, indicating the corresponding pair of locating points correctly positioned on an innersole, incorporating said innersole in a'shoe, fixing said outersole to the shoe with its pair of locating points 010- posite to the locating points of said innersole, and securing the skate to the shoe in accordance with the indications on said outersole.

2. The method which comprises rounding an outersole in definite relation to an indication of skate location thereon and to a pair of locating points in definite relation to said indication, rounding an innersole with definite relation to a corresponding pair of locating points on said innersole, incorporating said innersole in a shoe, securing said outersole to the shoe with the pair of locating points of said outersole coinciding with the locating points of said innersole, and

securing the skate to the shoe in accordance with the skate locations on said outersole.

3. The method which comprises indicating on an outersole a skate location with reference to a pair of locating points, indicating on an innersole the corresponding pair of locating points correctly related thereto, applying a locating element to said innersole to project from its lower face at each of said locating points, incorporating said innersole in a shoe, fixing said outersole to the shoe with said locating elements projecting thereinto at the locating points of said outersole, and securing a skate to the shoe in accordance with the indication on said outersole.'

4. The method which comprises rounding an innersole on a pattern having a pair of locating sole, and skate-attaching in :li"ca ;tions'- in predetermined relation to said locating points, inserting a rivet through said innersole to extend from the lower face thereof at each of said innersole locating points, incorporating said innersole in a shoe, securing said outersole to said shoe with said projecting rivets penetrating said outersole atits locating points, and securing a skate to the shoe in accordance with the skate-attaching indications on said outersole.

GEORGE H. GILLIS. 

